Medieval audiences couldn’t get enough of Polo’s fascinating accounts of faraway lands, turning his book into a runaway success. Marco Polo carries his popular book Il Milione, known in English as the ...

On Dec. 28, 1933, the New York Times, the Chicago Daily Tribune and the Los Angeles Times all reported the same intriguing story: the discovery of a map of the Far East drawn by Moreta Polo, one of ...

The world-famous explorer Marco Polo is credited with many things, but perhaps the greatest is compiling one of the world’s first best-selling travelogues. Published around 1300, the book chronicles ...